Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-02
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS, in speaking
OF Secretary Lamar's purpose to revoke
the orders OF withdrawal of railroad indem-
nifty lands, has expressed the opinion that
the revocation would result in $4,000, 600
acres of land being thrown open to settle
ment and entry
IN response to q letter from the attorneys
of the Willamette Valley & Cascade Noun
tain Wagon Road Company asking that
patents be issued to that company for lands
amounting to 143, GA acres, the Secretary of
the Interior replied that there was state
ment setting forth facts tending to show
that said wagon road had never been con-
structed, and that the Governor of Oregon
was induced to certify to the completion of
the road by false representations.
THE counting Of the money in the treas
ury preparatory to turning it over to the
new Treasurer, Hyatt, began on the 23d.
IN accordance with the order of the War
Department General Crook has ordered
Company Z, Ninth cavalry (colored), to
Cheyenne, and placed them under the di-
rection of the Interior Department for the
purpose of enforcing the order to tear down
fences on the public domain in Wyoming.
THE President has appointed Commodore
ID. B. Harmony, William A. Wallace, OF
New York; Il s. Van Eaton, of MISSISSIPPI
pi; Asa Morgan, OF Kansas; Thomas A.
Logan, of Iowa, and Prof d. G. Gilman, of
the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy
at Annapolis, Nd.
THE National Militia Drill opened at Wash
ington on the 23d.
MICHAEL TRAIN, a messenger in the
Treasury Department at Washington, re-
Gently fell over the ballusters on the fourth
floor of that building, a distance Of over
fifty feet, and was instantly killed
THE Presidents reception on the after
noon OF the 25th was attended by about
1900 persons.
THE President has celebrated the ami
versary OF his wedding by pardoning few
prisoners One of them was of a person
charged with a heinous crime in the Dis
trict, the evidence as to whose guilt was
never clear to the prosecuting officers, who
have certified that fact to the Attorney
General The person, it is now claimed, is
innocent. He had suffered long time in
Jail.
THE color line trouble cropped out in the
National Parade at Washington on the 25th,
two colored companies Of Virginia being
placed ahead of the Vicksburg Southrons.
n. j. RAMsDELL, one of the most brilliant
writers of Washington, a biographer of
Blaine and one of the latter's intimate
friends, died very suddenly on the 25th
WHEN the last call for the condition of
national banks was issued by the Comp
stroller of the Currency, notice was given
that in every instance of failure to forward
a report within the limit of time fine
would be imposed. Because of delinquency
in this respect, several banks have incurred
the penalty which will be assessed by the
Comptroller.
The President has appointed Henry F.
Downing, of New York, to be United States
Consul at st. Paul de la Onda, Portugal,
and Edward j. Hill, of North Carolina, to
be United States Consul at Montevideo.
THE Treasury department has received
information of the prevalence of pleuro-
pneumonia to somewhat alarming extent
in Scotland among neat cattle. The impor-
tation of neat cattle and the hides of neat
cattle from that country has been prohlb-
tied.